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These questions are perhaps partially answered by reference to The Character of Sir William Temple , written by his sister , Lady Giffard . It is a vivid portrait , the sharp , certain strokes revealing to the modern eye a seventeenth ...
These questions are perhaps partially answered by reference to The Character of Sir William Temple , written by his sister , Lady Giffard . It is a vivid portrait , the sharp , certain strokes revealing to the modern eye a seventeenth ...
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Swift did not found his whole character in the writer of the famous Maximes ; had he done so we should find the cynic in him overriding the indignant moral- ist . What Swift did take over from La Rochefoucauld was the latter's exposure ...
Swift did not found his whole character in the writer of the famous Maximes ; had he done so we should find the cynic in him overriding the indignant moral- ist . What Swift did take over from La Rochefoucauld was the latter's exposure ...
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Butler , Samuel , 68 , 69 , 71 ; Hudibras , 68 ; his Prose Characters , 68 ... Character of Doctor Sheridan , The , 341 . Character of Sir Robert Walpole , A , 334 . Chesterfield , Philip , 4th earl of , 241 .
Butler , Samuel , 68 , 69 , 71 ; Hudibras , 68 ; his Prose Characters , 68 ... Character of Doctor Sheridan , The , 341 . Character of Sir Robert Walpole , A , 334 . Chesterfield , Philip , 4th earl of , 241 .
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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